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There is an insinuation from the headline that the child had to be transferred to the U.S. in order to receive medical treatment. The reality was that the child was already receiving more than adequate, dare I say exemplary, medical treatment in Canada prior to this move. The headline could easily have been written "Hysterical parents engineer medical abuse on their brain-dead child". The situation is simple. It is the struggle of knowledge and sense vs. selfishness and emotion. What if the parents had demanded that the child's genitals be altered so that he looked more like a girl, because the parents wanted a replacement for the daughter they lost previously. Would that have been acceptable? No. Because one of the tenets of good medicine is not to perform treatments which can do no good. Everyone acknowledges that this child will be dead soon. Performing a tracheotomy on this child is unnecessary and constitutes medical abuse.